Beginner's Billiards

Sports is human life in microcosm. - Howard Cosell

Sports do not build character; they reveal it. - John Wooden

Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns. - Unknown

When I'm feeling athletic, I go to a sports bar. - Paul Clisura

To play billiards well is a sign of ill-spent youth. - Charles Roupell

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat. - Geoff Stults

Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope. - Camille Paglia

Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. - W S Gilbert

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. - Joel Osteen

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards. - Yani Tseng

The game of billiards has destroyed my naturally sweet disposition. - Mark Twain

The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it. - Croft M. Pentz

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio. - Gerald R. Ford

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. - H L Mencken

Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind. - Laird Hamilton

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. - Paul Rodriguez

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

Husband-hunting: A sport in which the animal that gets caught has to buy the license - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. - Jeremy London

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection. - Arthur Ransome

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman. - Thomas Jefferson

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further. - Jean-Claude Van Damme

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. - Rita Rudner

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it. - Emma Watson

There are only 3 true sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting and auto racing. All the rest are games. - Ernest Hemingway

Golf is like any other sports competition. There is not a whole lot of point to it unless someone suffers. - Kevin Wohl

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. - George Bernard Shaw

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. - Andy Roddick

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called 'hunting for your spectacles.' - Edward Grey

You have to be cool under pressure. You have to be a strategist like chess, and you have to use geometry like billiards. - Bill McBride

One of the greatest things about the sport of surfing is that you need only three things: your body, a surfboard, and a wave. - Naima Green

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. - Tiger Woods

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. - Andrea Bocelli

The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport. - Kelly Slater

The rules of clockwork might apply to familiar objects such as snooker balls, but when it comes to atoms, the rules are those of roulette. - Paul Davies

The starting line of the New York Marathon is like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport. - Bill Rodgers

His billiards lessons regarding double kisses, push strokes, butt caps, creeping angles of incidence, and snatches began to sound like flirting. - Jennifer Harrison

Approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse. - Juan M Fangio